“England have been a shower in the ODI game for ages, but at least we’ve been so dismal, and failed so comprehensively, that it will force a serious assessment of our game. Better that than scrape to the quarters and allow the usual suspects to ‘take the positives’ and be ‘optimistic’.”

“On a ground that has seen humiliation heaped upon them more than once in the past decade, they suffered one more ignominy, hustled out of the competition by a vibrant Bangladesh team who belied their status as whipping boys and delighted their thousands of supporters in the stands.”

“In the end it was not even close. Set 276 to win, after Mahmadullah Riyad had underpinned the Bangladesh innings with his country’s first ever world cup century.

“It’s all very well hitting centuries in relatively meaningless friendly test matches; it’s here and now that matters and time after time, England somehow manage to fail.Like the football team, we have one of the most overfunded, overstaffed and underperforming sporting bodies in world sport. It’s time we call it a day with the current approach and refresh most of our game. You only have to look at our recent opponents and tournament specialists, Sri Lanka to see how it’s done.”

BREAKING!

Regardless of England’s forms, the woes of the last year, England’s deep-rooted malaise in limited overs cricket, Bangladesh’s performance, the lack of suction and/or friction on the shoulder of Chris Jordan’s bat - this is shockingly awful.

Good delivery first up and Broad is sent packing. He gestures to James Anderson, No.11, that it’s reversing. Hossain is wide and yorker-length to Jimmy, who gets a thin edge but it’s stopped by a wide first slip. Brilliant next up, tailing slightly away but originally arrowing for Anderson’s pads. Bowled.

ENGLAND REQUIRE 16 RUNS WITH TWO WICKETS & 12 BALLS LEFT

Woakes digs out a yorker from Taskin and Broad takes on a short ball... and crunches it for six over midwicket! Fantastic connection. Flicks it fine and that’s another two. And then a no ball for height - is Taskin crumbling under the pressure? Already 11 from the over and still three balls remaining. Woakes on strike and goes high to the man at deep mid on... BUT IT’S DROPPED!!! Iqbal’s the fielder and it was in the air for an age. And breathe...

Back of the hand slower ball from Taskin is a full toss but Woakes can only smear it to the cover boundary for two. Superb four next up as Woakes waits on one and goes up and under over cover for four. He then digs out a yorker for one - good batting, that. But Buttler goes, feathering one through to Rahim. Taskin is ecstatic. Jordan tries to get off the mark straight away and there’s a direct hit as he turns and dives back into his ground. It looks like the shoulder is down. It’s not. He’s gone.

Woakes is on the back foot against Rubel Hossain and swipes him high over the head of mid on, who is up in the circle. The ball plugs but it allows a three, getting Buttler back on strike. He gives himself room but Hossain is full and straight, but not straight enough from a Bangladeshi perspective. Buttler gets the strike after a couple of singles and squeezes the ball past third man for four. Edged, but who gives one. They all ruddy count. Much better the next ball, as he waits and caresses the ball through the same region, in a much more convincing manner.

Buttler starts the over with a fine four through midwicket. Rank ball from the leg spinner, that. Singles - four of them - for the rest of the over. Fifty for Buttler - what a player he is. We really don’t deserve him.

Jos Buttler plays a shot over his shoulder . Photograph: James Elsby/AP

Taskin back on for his 7th over. Buttler hits a full toss down the ground for two and then has a tickle at another. Delightful scoop gets Jos a four. Woakes gets involved now with a lovely back foot slap through cover-point, which beats the boundary rider out at deep point.

David Wolfe, from South Africa, is one of a number of international cricket fans that hope England tank. And for good reason, to be fair:

“There are quite a number of people here who hope England leaves the World Cup as soon as possible. They are really angry that England, Australia and India has conspired to leave out SA, NZ, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc and push their own interests with the ICC. Australia and India are tough but people here are celebrating England’s disastrous showing.”

Buttler goes boom - glorious six over extra cover, inside out, immediately puts Sunny under pressure. Smart running sees two of the next ball. 11 in all from the over.

“I think it’s safe to say that however silly Finny et al feel wearing their lollipop lady smocks on the sidelines, you can be darn sure that they’re thanking all things holy that they’re not playing today,” writes Sarah Bacon. “This contest has Adelaide Redux written all over it. Or rather (as it’ll be no doubt alluded to in the future): ‘Don’t mention the war: I mentioned it once, and I think I got away with it’.”

Poor shot from Woakes but, luckily, he doesn’t get anything through to the keeper. Meanwhile, Tom from Andover knows where the real blame lies for England’s malaise...

“The Guardian OBO-ers have to take some of the blame for what is going on here. Normally, this erudite bunch are discussing cake and stuff of the telly from the 1980’s, but during this World Cup they keep talking about ‘cricket’ of all things?!?! I believe they have put off the entire England team with their chirping when they should be doing what they do best instead; talking bollocks!”

Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek)

"Edged again this time no" is the most Nick Knight sentence Nick Knight has ever said

Patient from both, as Shakib throws up a couple of tempters but is largely on the money/mark/donk etc.

Ollie Orton oemails oin:

“It’s a depressing world where I would now rather go to the library and do some of the work I’ve neglected for the last eight weeks than watch England tumble out of the latest competition. I suppose if I pass my degree I can thank Peter Moores and co. for making that decision as easy as possible...”

“Was this worth cancelling a winter of Test Cricket and messing about with the Ashes schedule?” asks Fraser Murray. “It doesn’t look like it just now…”

Caught and bowled chance shelled. And it was Buttler, too. HE does’t read the slower ball and shovels it back to the bowler. On reflection, no way he could had taken that given the way his body was contorted and the low trajectory of the ball.

“Chris Woakes looks like a default player on International Superstar Soccer for the N64 (we used to refer to that game by the abbreviation IS Soccer. Wouldn’t anymore) and also like the Head Boy at the other, nicer school in your home town who goes a bit mental on prom night and starts screaming, blind drunk about everyone expecting him to be perfect. We are safe in his hands.”

Five runs from the over. Woakes is a good batsman, so a 30-odd from him, mixed with some Buttler slaps, and it’s England’s game. Should also factor in Chris Jordan’s ability to swing hard. We’ll be reeeeeeet.

Root goes just after there’s a stifled appeal for a caught behind off Buttler. Meanwhile, there’s a trend developing in my inbox...

Robin Hazelhurst: “England losing here would certainly lead to a feeling of grim satisfaction that at least it’s all over.”

Tony Whitley: “Of all games, it seems to me, cricket is a confidence game and it clear that this is massively lacking in this group of overwhelmed and confused individuals.Surely, not being vindictive, the finger must point at management here.”

Sunny on and the strike is rotated a bit. I don’t really know anymore. At least we haven’t lost a wicket, yeah?

“It’s not as if they are bad players individually but something in the collective seems to be totally undermining this team,” writes a concerned Simon Gates. “When they get home they should as a matter of urgency compare notes with the Scotland rugby team, who have the same affliction.”

Shakib now into the attack and both the right-handers play him quite well. The 150 comes up to that music they always play in the darts.

“I do understand the perverse desire to see England lose, in the hope that it may in fact end up leading to a brighter future….but it won’t, will it?,” Probably not, Jonathan Wood. “I know that’s not the way England’s administrators work. We’ll have investigations, committees, sub-committees, reports, hand-wringing, and then nothing will change. Except they might sack Pietersen again.”

Glorious cover drive from Buttler - all wrists and a cleared front foot makes Jos a happy boy. Taskin tries not to repeat the trick but Buttler wanders down and punches him through cover for another four!

“Kevin Pietersen must be laughing his head off,” writes an angry Vic on his iPad (show off). “Bring back Fred Trueman and Bob Willis, May, Cowdrey and Barrington. What ever happened to bowling a good line and length and putting bat on ball and scoring runs. Too much technical and not enough Cricket. It’s painful to watch. The Aussies, South Africa and other countries try taking the game away from their opponents whereas we try to stay in it. Pathetic!!!!”

England’s ballsiest two batsmen at the crease. It’s them or ignominy, really. Good from Hossain, as Buttler takes two and then a single to the fifth ball. And the sixth.

I’m going to level with you - I’m really scared.

Paul in Stuttgart has been an England supporter since 1971:

“I’ve never seen anything approaching this bad from an England team. And that includes Summer 1976 when we were beaten by a team better than us in every way. This time it’s ourselves that are our worst enemy. Burn-out? Arrogance? Utter confusion behind the scenes? Zero confidence? Go away and start again!”

Taskin into the attack and he does well to stop two nicely timed drives, which were meant to go straight back past him. Slower ball is worked to midwicket for a single by Root. Taylor then does a weird jump, throws his hands at the ball and wristly flicks, all in one shot. He’s caught at first slip. Buttler to the crease.

Hossain in a nice rhythm. He’s a fascinating bowler to watch, with his bowling arm jutting out in his approach like a wing mirror. Root keeps his nerve and defends well before nailing a short length ball through midwicket for four!

Prior to Bell’s dismissal, quite a few of you had e-mailed in to tell me to tell him to get a move on. Ian Copestake has offered the following: “I have a less scientific note to add to Matt Jones’s email, namely how many England supporters are hoping they lose so that we don’t have to go through all this again.”

Procession of dots is ended by a nice drive down the ground by Root for three runs.

Geoff Lemon Sport (@GeoffLemonSport)

I'm not even playing the chucklehead Australian having a go. I just feel a bit sorry for them. Faces like kids in a waiting room. #CWC15

Thinned to third man for two before Bell tries the same thing again and nearly edges through to the keeper. High risk, low reward short, that. He goes harder and in front of point this time but his shot is stopped smartly.

“I’m following Ian Bell’s dotathon on the OBO, and while it is somewhat (ok, exceedingly) pedestrian, it does seem to me that the whole way we assess run rates in ODIs now has to change. Not just the way we calculate likely final scores, but also the way we think about the right balance of aggression and consolidation at different points in an innings. Which in turn could lead to a rethink of batting order. I reckon teams should now be working backwards from a 20:20 scenario where they can score 200+ off the last 20 overs. And for that they need at least 5 good wickets (assuming 2 non-batsmen in each line-up).

“If we then assume that 350 is becoming the target now for teams batting first, then par at 30 overs is having 150 runs on the board with 7+ wickets intact. Once you think like that then how you get to that 150/3 or better platform starts to feel a little irrelevant.

“Back when 10/over seemed bold, you could make a case for Hales and the like to bat up the order. But now we need 15-20/over from them (Glenn Maxwell style), which must mean them coming in later. Just food/waffle for thought...”

Fine shot from Root, just as the rate was rising. He’s quick onto a short ball from Hossain, pulling it in front of square for four! Few more dabs to third man and Root tries to cut a ball that’s far too straight. Luckily, it misses his edge and his stumps.

Mortaza lifts up a trouser leg to reveal what looks like a bionic leg. Bell puts him through point for a single allowing Hales to face some pace. Immediately, he’s back and across and timing him through midwicket for four! Another boundary, as Mortaza over-corrects and is now wide of off stump, allowing Hales to free his arms and hit through point. But Mortaza has the last laugh as Hales nibbles at one. Then Root, new to the crease, has his edge beaten.

Time for some leg spin from the wrists of Sabbir Rahman. Better rotation from England, but Bell misses out on a long-hop by clunking it down the ground for one rather than into the stands for more. Five from the over.

Single to get Bell off strike immediately after drinks. Diligent from Hales, who meets Shakib’s tempter front on. Down the track next, but the ball straightens, so Hales readjusts to just push into the off side, again for no run. Scampered single brings Bell back and he’s hopping back to push through cover for another single. Good over from Shakib.